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It's more fun with friends!

Join the Friends of Modern and Contemporary Art for FOURTH FRIDAYS FOR FRIENDS - an opportunity to enjoy in-depth discussions about contemporary art, attend private receptions hosted by FMCA, and delight in the DIA's fabulous Friday Night Live performances.

Andy Warhol’s obsession with celebrity manifested itself in many ways and is most revealing in his self-portraits. This 1986 version presents the artist as spectral: his neon blue head, shock of hair, and paint splatter appear as a disembodied, free-floating mask or scull. Made at a time when many of Warhol’s friends were dying of AIDS this canvas was considered a harbinger of death. David Bourdon, a friend, critic, and one-time studio assistant commented that these works are “a memento mori, an unblinking, unsentimental view of a hurriedly approaching mortality.” The DIA is fortunate to have a magnificent painting from the rejected series on loan from The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, while our two iconic Self-portraits (1967) are at the Metropolitan Museum as the signature works in the exhibition Considering Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years. The 1986 Warhol self-portrait will be on view through April 2013. Contemporary curator Rebecca Hart will discuss the 1986 “fright wig” self-portrait, Warhol’s cult of celebrityand his sense of mortality.

Sponsored by the Friends of Modern and Contemporary Art and JP Morgan Chase

Friday Night Live in Rivera Court

TwoSense

Pianist Lisa Moore and cellist Ashley Bathgate established their reputations individually as new-music interpreters through their work with the Bang on a Can All Stars. The two have formed TwoSense, a duo devoted to performing the latest works and commissions by contemporary composers and 20th century literature for cello and piano.